Hermocrates Quotes

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

The people always have some champion who they set over them and nurse into greatness …. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

He who demands does not command.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.